On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:50 -0500, Alex wrote: > > deliver should have logged something, or alternatively the problem was > > exactly that it couldn't log anything. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#logging > > Yes, looks like permissions. I have the following now in syslog: > > Nov 15 19:51:07 mail02 dovecot: lda(alexuser): Fatal: > setresgid(12(mail),12(mail),12(mail)) failed with euid=500(alexuser): > Operation not permitted
> Where is it trying to write that it can't? It's trying to change the process's UID/GID to mail/mail for some reason. Have you set "mail_uid=mail" or something? > Does alexuser need to be a member of group mail? No.
